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Goddard Space Flight Center worked with General Atomics to address scheduling challenges for TSIS-2 preparation for a mission critical design review scheduled for September.
General Atomics entered the smallsat industry through acquisitions of Miltec in 2016 and the U.S. subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. in 2017.
General Atomics encountered problems in the development of the Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) spacecraft for NASA under a $32,900,000 contract awarded in 2020.
General Atomics won the TSIS-2 contract by offering its OTB bus at a cost 40% below that of Southwest Research Institute.
NASA and General Atomics mutually agreed to end the MAIA hosting contractual relationship in late 2021 due to overall technical alignment and programmatic challenges.
NASA awarded a $38,500,000 contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems in 2018 to host MAIA on the OTB-2 spacecraft.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems launched two cubesats carrying optical communications terminals in June 2021 but the cubesats never reached their intended orbit and the company was unable to establish contact.
One goal of the June 2021 experiment was to establish optical communications between the cubesats and an optical terminal on a General Atomics unmanned aircraft.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems completed environmental testing of its satellite platform in preparation for a fall 2022 launch.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems integrated the Argos-4 hosted payload onto its satellite in preparation for a fall 2022 launch.
Optix was developed by Commonwealth Computer Research, Inc. (CCRi), a company acquired by General Atomics in 2021.
The U.S. Space Force selected General Atomics and Orion Space Solutions to each develop and launch demonstration satellites to gather global weather imagery and data on cloud characteristics.
The CDAO partners with General Atomics to develop the platform autonomy framework using government-owned open architectures such as the Universal Command and Control and Open Mission Systems interfaces.
The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project started over a year ago when DARPA selected a preliminary design for a rocket engine reactor developed by General Atomics and chose two conceptual spacecraft designs by Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin.
General Atomics was selected by the U.S. Space Force to launch a demonstration weather imaging satellite in 2024.
General Atomics acquired smallsat manufacturer Surrey Space Technology in 2017 to compete for Department of Defense contracts.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will deliver the EWS spacecraft with an integrated EO/IR payload and provide on-orbit mission control and data collection services to support the mission.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has been under contract since late 2020 to develop an integrated EWS satellite system design.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) manufactures the Gray Eagle.
General Atomics proposed a 12-satellite EWS constellation designed to provide a high refresh rate.